A Colorado company is seeking shipping commitments from oil producers to use a proposed pipeline that would move 150,000 barrels of crude daily from western North Dakota's booming oil patch to a pipeline hub in northern Minnesota.
For the first time, researchers will study whether carbon dioxide can be used to enhance oil recovered from wells in the Bakken formation.
Enbridge Inc. should be allowed to construct a crude-oil pipeline beneath Lake Sakakawea, but only if the company agrees to use the best construction methods and materials available.
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota oil drillers produced a record 152.9 million barrels of crude in 2011, up more than 35 percent and nearly 40 million more barrels than the previous record set a year earlier, the state Industrial Commission said Wednesday.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - An auction for the rights to drill for oil on North Dakota state lands raised $85.3 million on Tuesday.
Development of oil and natural gas from shale from North Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other states can drive U.S. economic growth and the President's call for an all-of-the-above approach to energy development.
Another 75 million cubic feet a day of natural gas will be captured and processed when a newly announced project opens at Ross in 2013. It means less flaring, less wasted natural gas, fewer emissions. It's a constructive strategy important to North Dakota's oil industry and the state.
A Canadian pipeline company plans to build a Bakken oil pipeline from one side of Lake Sakakawea to the other, but needs an environmental OK from several federal agencies to do it.
The Keystone XL pipeline was sent to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature because enough Republicans and Democrats voted to pass it. One might call that bipartisan.
A Houston-based gas company has announced plans to build a new plant near Ross, N.D., that could process up to 75 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
